Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Russell, David
Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Russell, David

Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was...
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Author: David Russell
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Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Russell, David

Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

$143.45
Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Russell, David

Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

$143.45
Author: David Russell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one's way with others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic.

Russell argues that the essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in this period and analyzes its techniques in the writings of Charles Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter Pater. He shows how their essays offer grounds for a claim about the relationship among art, education, and human freedom--an "aesthetic liberalism"--not encompassed by traditional political philosophy or in literary criticism. For these writers, tact is not about codes of politeness but about making an art of ordinary encounters with people and objects and evoking the fullest potential in each new encounter. Russell demonstrates how their essays serve as a model for a critical handling of the world that is open to surprises, and from which egalitarian demands for new relationships are made.

Offering fresh approaches to thinking about criticism, sociability, politics, and art, Tact concludes by following a legacy of essayistic tact to the practice of British psychoanalysts like D. W. Winnicott and Marion Milner.

Author: David Russell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 12/11/2017
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.38w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780691161198


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2018

About the Author
David Russell is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and a tutorial fellow of Corpus Christi College.
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